Provisional results confirmed that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's national election​, while far ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) came in second, doubling its result from last time. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) lost a lot, their coalition partner the Greens a ...

The resurgence of the far-left Left Party, as well as a historic result for the far-right AfD, demonstrates growing support ...

The center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its sister party, the CSU, led with 28.6% of the vote, while the AfD came in second with 20.8%, more than doubling its previous share. CDU leader ...

Far-right gains and a ‘sharper and edgier’ chancellor are among the takeaways from the country’s contest, an expert says.

Friedrich Merz looks poised to form a coalition between his center-right alliance and the center-left Social Democrats, but ...

We sought to seed the accounts with an equal interest in Germany’s four major parties – the Christian Democrats (CDU), ...

Young Germans flocked to opposite ends of the political spectrum in the federal election, rejecting the centre.

The success of the far-right AfD is a ‘final warning’ to democratic parties, the winner of Germany’s election warns ...

One of the main advocates of this policy within the party is Peter Boehringer, AfD’s federal vice chairman and a well-known ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political ...